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• Jackson mother files wrongful death claim after son is stomped to death in Hinds County jail

  16-07-2026 23:48 via mississippitoday.org
  
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  The mother of an 18-year-old who was stomped to death in the Hinds County Detention Center in Raymond has filed a wrongful death claim against the sheriff’s office, alleging negligence resulted in her son’s gruesome killing. Janice Bradley joined her attorney, Dennis Sweet III, at a Thursday press conference in calling for a full accounting of the events that led to the beating death of her son, M
  
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• The Mississippi Alumni All-Star Band puts on a show — and is on a mission

  16-07-2026 20:45 via mississippitoday.org
  
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  The auditorium walls of Jackson’s Provine High School couldn’t stop the rat-a-tat-tat of snare drums, the bright blasts from trumpets, the bouncing oomphs from tubas and waves of music pulsing into empty hallways. The Mississippi Alumni All-Star Band had found its rhythm. For the next several minutes, nearly 150 band members — middle school, high school and college students from across
  
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• Mississippi ranks No. 1 in producing male pro athletes, study says

  16-07-2026 20:02 via mississippitoday.org
  
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  Most Mississippians who read this column regularly know no other state produces more – or more high-quality – professional football players per capita than the Magnolia State.Seems like every year a new study comes out that ranks Mississippi either No. 1 or No. 2 in the nation in the number of football players who make NFL rosters. Over the course of the entire history of the NFL, Mississippi ranks No.
  
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• Mississippi opioid settlement council’s first 2026 meeting scheduled for Tuesday

  16-07-2026 16:00 via mississippitoday.org
  
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  With legislative adjustments and new outside help, Mississippi’s Opioid Settlement Fund Advisory Council will return to Jackson on Tuesday to begin its second cycle of grant recommendations. Council members will meet downtown at 1 p.m., on the first floor of the Mississippi Supreme Court Building. An email from the office of Attorney General Lynn Fitch, the council’s chairwoman, to members said th
  
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• Senate sends youth court overhaul to House after late-night debate in special session

  16-07-2026 15:25 via mississippitoday.org
  
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  The House is expected on Thursday to take up a measure to overhaul the state’s youth court system, after the Senate passed it late Wednesday night in a special session of the Mississippi Legislature called by Gov. Tate Reeves.The legislation would add more full-time judges and open youth court proceedings to the public, and lawmakers are also proposing to provide $29.5 million in new spending for the system.
  
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• Mississippi Today announces its 10th anniversary celebration and ‘All In on Mississippi’ summit

  16-07-2026 14:00 via mississippitoday.org
  
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  Mississippi Today will celebrate its 10th anniversary with a two-day gathering focused on civic dialogue, community impact and the future of Mississippi.The nonprofit news organization invites readers, supporters, business leaders, policymakers and changemakers from across the South to gather in Jackson for conversation, celebration and connection.Theanniversary celebration is Oct. 7 and the second annual “A
  
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• This county lost its hospital. Bringing it back is easier said than done

  16-07-2026 12:00 via mississippitoday.org
  
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  BELZONI — Harmony Ball-Stribling’s path to pregnancy had been turbulent, from an endometriosis diagnosis to an arduous in vitro fertilization process and sky-high blood pressure. But as her due date approached in the summer of 2021, her health improved and those storm clouds seemed to scatter.“It was just too perfect,” said her mother, Shenelle Ball-Green, of those calm, hot weeks.Then, aft
  
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• New Choctaw Indian Princess Crowned at Choctaw Indian Fair

  16-07-2026 10:28 via breezynews.com
  
  Last night at the Choctaw Indian Fair a new Choctaw Indian Princess was crowned. Lexi Alaysia Flint from the Red Water Community (Leake County) was crowned as the 71st Choctaw Indian Princess. She was sponsored by the Red Water Development Club.
  Lexi also won the Personal Presentation Award and Miss Congeniality.
  1st Alternate was Miyah Henry sponsored by the Choctaw Health Center Employees Association.
  2nd Alternate was Gracyn Dees Grisham sponsored by IKBI, Inc.
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• Hot Weekend Ahead for This Area

  16-07-2026 06:54 via breezynews.com
  
  It’s the beginning of another heat wave in Mississippi this weekend. Temperatures will be climbing from the lower 90s today and tomorrow to the mid 90s by Saturday and into the upper 90s in some areas by the middle of next week.  The National Weather Service says, in some locations, “significant” heat stress will be possible.  In this area, the heat index could climb to around 105 in Kosciusko Saturday and up to 110 in Carthage, Philadelphia and Durant.
  NWS says a few
  
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• Youth court special session has lawmakers meeting at new, and old, capitol buildings. See photos

  16-07-2026 01:27 via mississippitoday.org
  
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  The Mississippi Legislature reconvened in Jackson on Wednesday for a special session called by Gov. Tate Reeves to consider an overhaul of the state’s youth court system, which fizzled at the end of the regular session this year and caused some of the laws and funding for youth court to sunset.But lawmakers faced a major problem: The House chamber in the Capitol is undergoing major renovation and is currentl
  
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